All news: Greece
Transition to formal employment
ILO members agree on a roadmap to curb undeclared work in Greece
New initiative aims at reducing undeclared work that remains a significant feature of the Greek economy.
Inequalities and middle-income groups
Crisis has aggravated long-term erosion of European middle class
The financial crisis and changing employment relationships have caused the middle class in most EU countries to contract over the past decade.
ILO technical assistance
ILO to support Greece in boosting labour market policies and the social economy
The ILO Director-General today met with Greek ministers, worker and employer representatives in Athens to discuss the country's response to economic and unemployment issues.
ILO welcomes the reactivation of social dialogue in Greece
Greece employment
Greece needs to address risk of a prolonged social crisis
A new ILO report calls for additional measures to support jobs and enterprises, plus social protection and a stop to further wage cuts in the country.
Media advisory
ILO to launch new report on the Greek employment situation
Social dialogue and labour law
ILO hosts top-level talks to restart social dialogue on Greek labour questions
Gathering of government, worker and employer representatives discussed Greek industrial relations and labour issues.
Tackling the Jobs Crisis in Greece: Which Ways forward?
Speech by the ILO Director-General at the High-level Seminar on the jobs crisis in Greece
Media advisory
ILO conference: Tackling the jobs crisis in Greece
Greece ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)
Greece has become the 32nd ILO member State and the tenth EU member State to have ratified this landmark Convention.
ILO calls on Greece to bring its labour relations system back to fundamental rights
In this year’s November session, the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association – the supervisory body of the International Labour Organization (ILO) that examines cases concerning employers’ and trade unions’ rights to organize, collective bargaining...
Interview with The Times
ILO Chief warns of austerity’s ‘toxic’ impact
In an interview with The Times newspaper, the head of ILO warned that austerity measures in southern European countries risk having “quite harmful consequences”. He was more positive about the outlook in Britain.
Greek youth lose faith in the future
When Greek unemployment hit another record high at the end of 2011, it was the first time that the number of young people without a job outnumbered those in work. Qurratul-Ain Haider, a journalist based in Geneva, reports from Athens.
ILO releases report on the High Level Mission to Greece of September 2011
High-level ILO mission to Greece on international labour standards
An ILO High Level Mission to Greece has finished a full week of extensive meetings with all relevant actors of the country’s labour market. The mandate of the mission arose from complaints concerning the application of international conventions...